"doctrinal development" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use "doctrinal development" when referring to the growth and change of beliefs, doctrines, and opinions in a particular area. For example: "The doctrinal development of psychology over the last century has been remarkable."
His Risālat al-iʿtiqādāt (Shīʿite Creed, 1942) is important for the study of the doctrinal development of Shīʿah.
Constantine legalized Christianity, promoted its interests, and took an active role in its institutional and doctrinal development.
The definition of the church's teaching authority must show that these modifications do not exceed the limits of legitimate doctrinal development.
Here again, the diversity between doctrines ("allowable interpretations") and the stability of dogmas ("essential teaching") points to the vexed problem of doctrinal development in history that is apparent in all the traditions.
The process of doctrinal development has been explained variously as a process of logical unfolding or of organic growth, or else as a process of purgations of error and restorations of the original deposit.
In all traditions, the course of doctrinal development is crucially affected by the occasional emergence of profound and powerful thinkers who have gathered up scattered elements in their various traditions in freshly relevant syntheses, altering thereby the subsequent history of that tradition.
This has not stopped certain "doctrinal developments" from being widely regarded as legitimate and commendable.
Important as the events just described were for the papacy, the doctrinal developments of Pius's pontificate, which spring directly out of these political disasters, constitute its most significant contribution.
These doctrinal developments were matched by several substantial theoretical innovations that sought to recharacterize contract as reliance-based and thus in effect a special case of tort.
Fellowship meals continued in association with the postapostolic Eucharist, as is shown in the Didachē (a Christian document concerned with worship and church discipline written c. 100 c. 140) and in the doctrinal and liturgical development described in the writings of the Early Church Fathers little was changed.
To be sure, the United States Military Academy at West Point, one of the foremost and illustriously storied institutions in the entire world for the doctrinal instruction and professional development of officers in the profession of arms, requires such leadership.
